Data-LAN & Telephone cables

The American cabling standard for balanced twisted-pair components, which is where Category 5e, 6 and 6A come from.

Multicore and symmetrical pair cables for data transmission in horizontal structured cabling.

The international standard for generic structured cabling in customer premises: the class ratings a network installation is certified to.

The European generic cabling standard for information technology systems, the regional counterpart to ISO/IEC 11801.

Screened cables for use up to 500 MHz, within the European multi-element metallic cable series.

Common design and construction rules for communication cables: the materials and build quality expected of data, signal and instrumentation cable.

Flame propagation on a single vertical cable. It shows the cable will not carry a fire along its own length, which is the minimum expected of any cable in an occupied building.

Flame spread on a bundle of cables in a vertical tray, Category C. A cable can pass the single-cable test and still spread fire when hundreds are bunched in a riser, which is what this addresses.

How much halogen acid gas the cable gives off when it burns. Halogen-free matters where people or sensitive equipment share the space with the cable.

The acidity and conductivity of the gases a burning cable produces: in effect, how corrosive the smoke is to the building and its equipment.

Smoke density from a burning cable, measured in a sealed chamber. Low smoke is an evacuation requirement: people leave a building by sight.

The American cabling standard for balanced twisted-pair components, which is where Category 5e, 6 and 6A come from.

Made within the restrictions on lead, mercury, cadmium and the other hazardous substances the EU limits in electrical equipment.

Carrying UL certification against the relevant product safety standard.